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( IV) Josiah Hotchkiss, son of Josiah, mentioned in the preceding paragraph, was born April 3, 1720. According to the "Bartholomew Genealogy," Abi- gail Bartholomew, born Jan. 23, 1724-25, was mar- ried Dec. 8, 1741, to Josiah Hotchkiss, and they were living in Cheshire in 1791. She was a daugh- ter of William and Abigail ( Brown ) Bartholomew, the latter a daughter of Gershom Brown, of New Haven. William Bartholomew lived in Northford, Conn., where he was engaged in farming. He was a descendant of William Bartholomew (who ar- rived in Boston from England Sept. 18, 1634, in the
The MILLER Family of which Mrs. Wood is a | ship "Griffin"), through William, William and An-
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drew. William Bartholomew, son of the emigrant, married in 1663 Mary, a daughter of Capt. Isaac Johnson ( who was a captain in the Colonial wars, and was killed Dec. 19, 1675, in the Narrangansett Fort fight ), and granddaughter of Capt. John John- son (who also served in the Colonial wars, and was surveyor of all the King's armies in America). Andrew Bartholomew, son of William, father of William, and grandfather of Mrs. Abigail ( Bar- tholomew ) Hotchkiss, served in the Colonial wars. He was a prominent man in Branford and Wall- ingford, where he managed his father's mills after the latter's removal to Woodstock, and after the father's death he and his brother Benjamin owned and operated the mills in partnership. Later An- drew devoted his attention principally to farming, purchasing large tracts of land in Branford, Wall- ingford and adjoining towns. Before 1729 he re- moved to Wallingford, where he passed the re- mainder of his life. He was frequently called upon to fill positions of public trust in Branford. He died in 1752.
. (V) Josiah Hotchkiss, son of Josiah and Abi- gail, was born Dec. 26, 1742, and died in June, 1812. He served in the Revolutionary war. The record shows as follows :
HARTFORD, CONN., March, 1999.
This is to certify that Josiah Hotchkiss served in the war of the Revolution, and the following is his service, according to the records of this office. On page fil, "Con- necticut Men in the War of the Revolution," appears the following: Josiah Hotchkiss, private in Captain John Wat- son's Company, Colonel Benjamin Hinman's Regiment. Discharged in Northern Department November 20, 1775. In witness whereof we have affixed hereto the seal of this office.
WM. C. T. LANDU'S. Asst. Adjt. General.
(VI) Israel Hotchkiss, son of Josiah and Sarah, born in Cheshire May 30, 1767, spent his life in that town, and was a farmer by occupation. He lived to the age of seventy-three, dying Feb. 21, 1840. He married Martha Royce, who was born March 7, 1765, daughter of Nathaniel Royce, and lived to the advanced age of seventy-five years, dying March 15, 1840, and they had a family of nine children, all of whom are now deceased. Israel Hotchkiss served in the Revolutionary war. and the following is his record :
HARTFORD, CONN., March, 1899. Adjutant General's Office:
This is to certify that Israel Hotchkiss served in the war of the Revolution and the following is his service, according to the records of this office: On Page 191, "Con- necticut Men in the War of the Revolution," Appears the following: " Levies who served in the 4th Connecticut Regi- ment, Colonel John Durkies for the year 1780," Israel Hotch- kiss-enlisted July 9, 1780 discharged Dec. 14, 1780. In wit- ness whereof we have affixed hereto the seal of this state. WM. C. T. LANDU'S, Asst. Adit. General.
Andrews families. She came of stock prominent during the Revolutionary period and early Colonial times. Among the first planters of Wallingford were (I) Isaac and (II) Nehemiah Royce, who made their appearance in the place in 1671. Na- thaniel, Samuel, Joseph and Robert Royce were there soon after. All had families, and were be- lieved to be the sons of Robert Royce, who was the first of the name in America.
Ensign Nathaniel Royce, father of Mrs. Hotch- kiss, was born May 20, 1734. He served in the war of the Revolution. In Vols. I and II, "Records of the State of Connecticut," appears the record of Ensign Nathaniel Royce's Revolutionary service in the 15th Company, Ioth Regiment. On Dec. 3, 1761, he married Lois ( Hulls) Doolittle, a de- seendant of the Hulls, who were the earliest physi- cians in that part of Connecticut. Her father, John Hulls, was a son of Benjamin Hulls, and a grandson of John Hulls, who served in King Phil- ip's war.
(VII) Seth Hotchkiss, son of Israel, and fa- ther of the Doctor, was born Sept. 18, 1808, in Cheshire, was reared on a farm in that town, and received his education in the common schools. In 1829 he went South and married Olivia Davidson, locating in Lancaster, S. C., where he engaged in the business of carriage building for a number of years. Later he became a resident of Fort Mill, that State, where he continued at his trade for a time, finally entering the mercantile business, in which he was occupied until his death. He served fourteen years as postmaster at Fort Mill, where he was one of the first settlers, and took an active part in the affairs of that place. For many years he kept the only boarding house in the town. MIr. Hotchkiss was twice married. By his first wife, Olivia Davidson, he had four children: Caroline, James D., John D. and Seth A. For his second wife he married Mrs. Rebecca L. (Blunt) Steele, who had three children by her first union. To her marriage with Mr. Hotchkiss were born four chil- dren, two of whom died in infancy ; Martha Emma became the wife of William Sinclair Steward ( ROW deceased ), a prominent business man of Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. Hotchkiss, now aged seventy years, survives the father, who passed away Nov. 8, 1886, at the age of seventy-eight. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, while the mother is a Methodist.
(VIII) Norton Royce Hotchkiss was born Aug. 23, 1870, in Fort Mill, S. S., where he was reared and acquired his early education. He was a stu- dent for some time at the Fort Mill Academy, and at the age of eighteen years began his medical studies under Samuel A. Kell, M. D. He was also under the instruction of Dr. Alexander Mack, and attended lectures at the South Carolina Med- ical College and the University of Maryland, at
Mrs. Martha ( Royce) Hotchkiss and the Doc- ' Baltimore, graduating from the latter in 1891. One tor through her descended also from the Ives and | year before his graduation he received the appoint- 84
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ment of hospital interne, the duties of which po- sition he filled throughout his last year at college. Graduating in the class of 1891, of which he was elected as chairman, he commenced practice in New Haven on June 8th, of that year, his first location being at No. 164 Thompson street. In 1893 he re- moved to his present residence, No. 150 Slielton avenue, and in September. 1900, he opened a sec- ond office, at No. 237 York street. Though a gen- eral practitioner, he has gained special note as a gynecologist and obstetrician, and he stands well among his professional brethren, as well as among his patrons. He is a member of the City, County and State Medical Societies, and of the American Medical Association. Fraternally and socially he holds membership in numerous organizations, be- longing to the A. O. U. W .; Hammonassett Tribe, Independent Order of Red Men; the D. of H .; Charter Oak Lodge, N. E. O. P., of which he was one of the organizers; the National Fraternal League; the Woodmen of the World; the Pequot Club; the New Haven Gun Club; the. Graduates Club; the Knights Templars Club : and the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-sec- ond degree, affiliating with Trumbull Lodge, F. & A. M .; Franklin Chapter ; Harmony Council; New Haven Commandery; the Scottish Rite Masons; and Pyramid Temple, Mystic Shrine. In this con- nection it may be mentioned that he is examining physician for the D. of H., the N. E. O. P., the National Fraternal League, and the Woodmen of the World; medical director of the Masonic Pro- tective Society, and medical examiner for the Mas- sachusetts Life and Berkshire Life Insurance Cos., and the Washington Life of New York. He is also a member of the Second Company, Governor's Foot Guards, and surgeon on the staff of Major Clark, formerly serving in that incumbency under Major Brown. The Doctor belongs to the Kappa Sigma college fraternity, and the Alumni Associa- tion of the University of Maryland.
In October, 1893, Dr. Hotchkiss married Miss Lucy E. Belk, a native of Fort Mill, S. C., and they have had two children, Elizabeth M. and Norton Royce. They attend the Summerfield . M. E. Church, of which the Doctor is a member, and in which he has held official position.
ISAAC JOCELYN WILD, who was for many years connected with the New Haven Gas Light Co., is a native of Stockport, Columbia Co., New York, having been born in that State Aug. 25, 1842, a son of Joseph and Sarah A. ( Jocelyn) Wild.
The paternal grandfather, James Wild, was born in England, and came to America when a young man, building the first cotton mill in the State of New York, at Stockport, Columbia Co., where he had settled, and he manufactured the first mousseline-delaine in this country.
Joseph Wild, the father of our subject, was also a manufacturer of various cotton goods. He came
to New Haven in 1882, where he still resides, re- tired from active life. The mother of our subject was born in New Haven, being a daughter of Nathaniel Jocelyn, a native of New Haven, and a noted portrait painter, as well as the founder of the National Bank Note Company, of New York. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wild : Isaac J., our subject; Margaret J., who died in 1859, unmarried; Sarah II .; Josephine, who died in 1869, also unmarried. Mrs. Wild died in 1868. Mr. Joseph Wild has always taken an active interest in politics, affiliating with the Republican party.
Isaac J. Wild, the subject of this review, re- ceived his early education in the public schools of New Haven, and later attended Hopkins' Grammar School, finally graduating from Yale in 1867. Af- ter finishing his scholastic course, Mr. Wild accepted a position as cashier in a large wholesale and retail establishment in New York City; in 1868-69-70, he was connected with C. S. Maltby Oyster House in Baltimore, and in 1872 came to New Haven, where he has since remained. Upon locating here, Mr. Wild became a clerk in the New Haven Gas Light Co., and was elected treasurer of that organ- ization in 1887, which office he occupied until the summer of 1901, when he resigned on account of ill health.
On July 3, 1878, Mr. Wild was united in mar- riage to Miss Sarah E. Goodyear, of Hamden, Conn., a daughter of Willis and Emily Goodyear, also of Hamden. Two children were born of this union : Joseph Goodyear, born May 17, 1879, and Jocelyn Plant, born Sept. 28. 1882. On Oct. II, 1882, occurred the death of Mrs. Wild. Politically, Mr. Wild is a strong Republican; and religiously, is a Congregationalist.
SAMUEL CLARK PADDOCK writes: Ac- cording to the record in the old family Bible, I was born Aug. 31, 1816, in the South East School District of the city of Meriden, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut. The family traditions trace back to Zachariah Paddock, who came from Wales, Great Britain, and landed in Rhode Island. He afterwards settled in Middletown, Conn., and died May 13, 1800, in the seventy-third year of his age. His son, Samuel, had a son, Samuel (2), who was my father.
My first recollections are of being in the front yard and a friend telling me I was four years old.
My mother, Polly ( Sears) Paddock, died when I was six years of age. She was an excellent and faithful Christian woman. I remember my mother saying when her last hour had come, "The Lord will take care of him." My father married Char- lotte Yale Jan. 22, 1823, and she was a good Christian and had a good influence over me for several years. I learned to milk, drive the cows to pasture, bring home the working oxen, pick up apples, help the girls wipe dishes and do other light work.
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Father had a large farm in East Meriden with many apple trees thereon. One abundant season of apples father let a neighbor, Titus Ives, pick up, grind, and make cider on shares. He gathered that season sufficient fruit to make four hundred Mr. Ives sold the most of his cider to men in Middletown at fifty cents a barrel. They shipped it to the West Indies. Father had his carried to Deacon Ives' still. Father received about seven barrels of brandy, worth about eight cents a quart. It was then proper and nothing unusual for any man to run a still. It was proper for pastors, dea- cons, and all people to drink distilled liquors. There was a temperance movement in 1835, and many people who had orchards cut down nearly all their cider apple trees, reserving only winter apples. Most of the inhabitants discarded using intoxicating drinks. From that influence our present business men started up in life.
When I was about ten years old I had the care of the young stock, especially colts. On one occa- sion father was preparing for his men to go in the field. The men boarded with us, and, just as they were ready, a Mr. Coy, a neighbor, came to ex- change a young horse for another, which was a "Path Finder." Father said, "Samuel, you go with Mr. Coy, and exchange, and I will go with the men." I went with Mr. Coy and showed him a very good-looking animal with which he was satis- fied, at a twenty dollar difference in our favor, and we made the exchange. Father asked whether we traded. I said, "We did." He said, "That is all right," which pleased nie and encouraged me to think I knew something about the stock of "Path- finders."
On another occasion a MIr. Brock, of Middle- town, came by our house and inquired if father was home. I said he went to Middletown this morn- ing. Mr. Brock said he was sorry, as he wished to exchange oxen with him. I said, "I can ex- change as well as father." "Will your father admit your doing it?" I said, "Surely." Ours was a handsome pair, well-mated. but slower than mo- lasses in winter. His appeared to be lively' and were larger than ours. He said he would give ten dollars difference. I said. "You can take them home with you, and call it a trade." Father came home and looked at the new oxen. He said "You must have paid some to boot." which did not displease me.
I was now about twelve years old. Father sent me over to town with a load of oats for the stable at the hotel, requesting me to collect the pay. I delivered the oats, went to the office and handed the bill to the clerk. He threw down the money on the counter and said, rather crossly, he did not want to be bothered with boys. I counted the money, found it half a dollar too much, and said, "You have made a mistake." He thought he knew how to count. "Well, please count it." "Oh yes,
there is too much," and quickly picked up the money. It was a principle of father's to always do as you agreed, and rectify any mistakes.
William J. Ives and myself started to go over to Harbor Brook, West Meriden, to have a bath, barrels of cider, thirty-two gallons to the barrel. I and as we went by where Mr. Lawrence was build-
: ing the Congregational Church the tables for enter- tainment of those who were helping raise the build- ing were spread with a bountiful supply of all kinds of rum, brandy, etc., and we concluded as we were going by we would step up, as it was all free, and take a nip. We went on to the brook and had our swim. Coming back we wanted to protect our- selves from chills, so we took another nip. It being a common usage, we felt at perfect liberty to do so.
Mr. Reed, from Durham, or Reed's Gap, came to Meriden to buy a yoke of oxen. I was driving two pair for the men plowing in the field. He stopped at the house and father told him, where I was driving them so that he could go and see them. He asked the price. I hardly knew the proper price, but told him he might have his choice for a certain price named. He inquired if father would like me to sell them. At that time of life I felt at liberty to transact any business of importance, being about twelve years of age. He paid me the amount asked and took his choice.
When I was fourteen years old I remember Gen. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren coming through Meriden. As there were no railroads they traveled by stage. We had but two carriages in Meriden that were considered fit for riding. Parties went down the turnpike as far as the gate, took them from the stage and brought them up to town. Walter Booth stepped in front of the carriage and introduced them to the citizens. This was the in- troduction : "Citizens of Meriden, I introduce to you Gen. Andrew Jackson, President of the United States and the people's president, and Vice Presi- dent Martin Van Buren."
I continued working on the farm and brick yard until about fifteen years old. I went to school in winter and helped father in the summer.
When about sixteen years of age, our work on the farm and brickyard being nearly finished for the season, said I to father, "I don't care to go to school this coming winter, I'd rather earn a little something for myself." A Mr. Martin had a horse and wagon for the business of peddling tin. I saw Mr. Martin and made an engagement with him to take a team and he furnished tin at the .old established "six-pound price." He promised me fifteen dollars per month, and half I could make over. When we settled in the spring he counted and made out that he owed me twenty- five dollars per month, which was very satisfactory I to me and, I presume, to him.
The next summer I worked at home on the farm and brickyard. In the fall Mr. Martin offered me thirty dollars, for a month, to sell a new kind of brass kettles that he had. William J. Ives, an old
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chum of mine, had engaged to take a load of the same style of goods for Noah Pomeroy. We started together with the loads and went directly to Cape Cod. We traveled together, as there was but one direct road on Cape Cod. He sold at one house, I taking the next, and, as we traveled on, we sold our entire loads for cash. On my return home Mr. Julius Pratt asked me to take second quality ivory combs and go to Ohio to sell them. l considered it too far, and stayed at home.
I proposed to father that I would like to make briek on my own account. He said, "It would take too much money for you to start the business, as you will have to furnish wood and hire help, at least three men, through the summer, before you could get any returns. It will take at least two thousand dollars before you can get anything back." I asked him if he thought Uncle Robert Paddock, in Middle- town, would loan me the money. He said, "You cannot give a note, you are not old enough yet." I thought I would try, so walked into Middletown, met the old gentleman, and after inquiring regard- ing our people, I said, "I would like to make brick," and spoke of borrowing money of him. He said, "You are not old enough to give a note," but he had been down to Meriden frequently and seen me work- ing in the yard, so he said, "I think I will let you have the money." I found a good place on one end of Noah Pomeroy's land and bought a piece sufficient for a yard, and made preparations for working. I hired three men and bought wood ready for burning. The second year, 1836, there was a great panic over the country, and the banks could not redeem their bills. We could not get silver from any bank in the United States for bank bills. All that time I still continued making brick.
In the spring of 1837 I prepared to marry Mr. Casper Hall's daughter. In asking the gift of my intended, he spoke of having "a cage for the bird before getting it." A neighbor of ours, Mr. Coy, offered to sell his home. I saw Mr. Coy and pro- posed buying the same, a lot and a fine peach or- chard. I got his lowest price, five hundred fifty dollars, for the place. I proposed giving him my note, which he readily accepted, although I was not of age at that time. As I had bought "the cage," that settled the matter of engagement and we were married that spring, 1837, a little before I became responsible for my notes. My wife was Janette Hall, daughter of Casper Hall, granddaughter of Brenton Hall (first representative of Meriden in the General Assembly of Connectieut in 1806), and great-granddaughter of Rev. Samuel Hall, who was the first preacher of the Gospel in the town of Cheshire, Connecticut.
I was determined that my notes should be paid in full, though the times were so bad. Mr. Eli Ives and Henry J. Tenant formed a co-partnership and hired my old friend. William J. Ives, and my- self to go South with thein and sell tinware, paying fifty-two and one-half dollars per month for nine
months, they bearing all expenses. There were fourteen men and eight teams in the party. We were to start Sept. 10 for Alabama, by land. We went by the way of Middletown to New York, by water across to New Jersey, then by land to Wash- ington, from Washington by water down the bay somne hundred miles or more ; the rest of the way we went by land, all including about fourteen hundred miles. I furnished my own horses, which I had purchased while in the brick business. One of the horses cost me forty dollars and the other one forty-five dollars; they happened to be as good a team as there was on the road. I suppose it was something in driving and caring for them. After we had made about thirty-five miles each day, it was the custom of Mr. Tenant to ride with me, because my team seemed to be the freshest, and go ahead and provide for the night. He usually sought the lowest-priced house. Mr. Tenant would say to the proprietor, "Now, if you will throw in the beer free, we will stop." Rum, brandy and peach brandy would be set free before us when we wanted it. This liberality induced the boys, myself and Mr. Stowe included, to take a little in a bottle to use through the day. After we reached North Carolina I said to Mr. Stowe, "We are taking that a little too often; perhaps we had better not have it along," and he agreed. I picked up the bottle and tossed it over into the bushes.
When we arrived at the end of the journey my horses and William Ives' team were the freshest teams and the best able to continue. As the Ala- bama river was so low, we could not get the goods up the river, nor tools for the workmen to use. Mr. Ives proposed to me that we take our teams and go down to the bay at this side of Mobile and bring two loads. Our teams were still well enough to continue work, after a few days' rest. The river began to rise, so the remainder of the goods were brought up by steamer. We soon started out. Mr. Ives and myself with our loads started north as far as Talladega. I met a man there from South Carolina who asked me if I would exchange my team for his carriage horses. I said, "Yes, if I could make it better for myself." I proposed the exchange for twenty-five dollars. He said he would give me twenty dollars, which I accepted. I drove up to a hotel at the old mound where Jackson fought and was surrounded by Indians, and was obliged to send a scout to Georgia and bring re- cruits, to drive the Indians away from the fort. I traveled in the South nine months, and settled seen- ingly to the satisfaction of the parties for whom I worked. I was planning to go North with the horses which I had at that time. A gentle man from Montgomery came to where we were located, and said he would like to exchange a saddle horse for my horses, as a man in Montgomery wanted just such a pair. The exchange was made. and I received $137.50 to boot, besides horse, bridle and saddle. Having now only one horse, and there
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being no railroads, I rode on horseback, in company ill, the merchant, "If he buys goods, he will pay for them; he will want time." Knowing the condition of the Southern trade, that the people there wanted time, as they sold their cotton in the spring, and were buying their goods on four months, I wanted four months on my purchases. Mr. Churchill told one of the clerks to wait on me, and I selected what I wanted. On leaving the store I said, "I wanted about five hundred dollars worth of silks." and they proposed introducing me to the importers. I bought what silks I wanted on the same time, four months. I then took courage and bought hardware. The hardware firm inquired where I was buying my goods, and I told them of Churchill & Co., and Alfred Edwards & Co. They said it was all right, and sold me the hardware. Then I went to a shoe establishment and bought on time, and I had no difficulty in getting all or any kind of goods I wanted. with two others, starting for Illinois to see the country. We stopped at one of the banks at Hunts- ville, Ala., and exchanged our paper money for silver, with which. to buy western lands. We had to pay twenty-four per cent. on our bank bills to get silver, as the government would not take any money unless it was gold or silver. The bank bills were State bank bills, as good as any in the country, ex- cept South Carolina bills. I had my wages and the difference in horse trading, five hundred dollars, and paid about one hundred dollars exchange. I put four hundred dollars in silver into a pair of old stockings and placed it in my saddle bags, which made it quite inconvenient for riding on the saddle. We continued traveling North through Tennessee and Kentucky, crossed the Ohio river at Cavern Rock, afterward going through what was then called Egypt in Illinois. It was timber land, and the water was very poor. We came to Vandalia, the I proposed to Mrs. Paddock that she go with me and take our two children. I had a pair of horses and a convenient top wagon. We put a feather bed in the back of it and a trunk forward to sit on. We buckled the curtains down when we traveled and put the children over back, so that they could play or lie down. We took the Western route, through Virginia by the way of Harper's Ferry, and followed the National road through to Georgia, then down the Alabama river as far as Lowndes county. There we received our goods from the river, and hired a house. The owner was a single man, with no family excepting negroes. We had rather rough board, including plenty of former seat of government, which had been re- moved to Springfield about this time. We found the land improving as soon as we came to the prairies and the country grew better, and as my friends were so well pleased with the country there they took up land at government prices. I con- tinued my journey on toward Springfield, going by way of Hillsboro. The country grew better for farming purposes. The land on the Sangamon river appeared the best I ever saw for farming, but I found that the people there were suffering with chills and fever, generally looking more like cakes of tallow than human beings. They were moving across the Mississippi river to get a better climate, . cabbage and turnip greens, with bacon and coarse therefore I concluded to return to my home in Con- necticut, and went by the way of Chicago. I +rav- eled by land to Toledo, then by boat to Buffalo, and continued by land till I reached my home. I met William Hale a few days after arriving. He proposed to buy my saddle horse. I sold him for $132.50. All the parties were satisfied and pleased with their exchanges, and I think my luck ought to be satisfactory to me. --
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